. New England bird life; being a manual of New England ornithology: ed. from the manuscript of Winfrid A. Stearns . Birds. CANACE CANADENSIS : CANADA GROUSE. 149 Female : nowhere continuously black, but much varie- gated with brown, tawny and white ; the same orange colored tail-bar, not so well defined. In size, rather less than tlie male. The normal limit of dispersion of the Canada Grouse southward divides the Canadian from the Alleghanian Fauna, enabling us to draw the line between the two with greater exactitude, perhaps, than that afforded by the distribution of any other o
. New England bird life; being a manual of New England ornithology: ed. from the manuscript of Winfrid A. Stearns . Birds. CANACE CANADENSIS : CANADA GROUSE. 149 Female : nowhere continuously black, but much varie- gated with brown, tawny and white ; the same orange colored tail-bar, not so well defined. In size, rather less than tlie male. The normal limit of dispersion of the Canada Grouse southward divides the Canadian from the Alleghanian Fauna, enabling us to draw the line between the two with greater exactitude, perhaps, than that afforded by the distribution of any other of our birds. The fine creature resides in all the evergreen wood- ed, and especially in the swampy, parts of North- ern New England, and is not a migra- tory species. It is said to be common at Umbagog, in Maine, and to be ordinarily limited southward by the White Mountain range. The few in- stances in which this Grouse has been shown to occur beyond the region indicated must be regarded as irregu- lar, if not wholly accidental. Mr. Allen, very properly, it seems to us, considers the two reported Massachusetts captures as accidental. One of these was in the hem- lock woods of Gloucester, in September, 1851 ; the other in Roxbury, about 1865 (Am. Nat., iii, 1870, p. 636; and Bull. Essex Inst., x, 1878, p. 22). Farther south, the Spruce Grouse is unknown, even as a straggler. Like others of its family, this Grouse nests on the ground, usually in swampy, secluded localities. The eggs are laid in the latter part of May, and young may. Fig. 32. — Head of Canada Grouse. Natural Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stearns, Winfrid Alden, 1852-; Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899. Boston, Lee and Shepard; New York, C. T. Dillingham
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